"What happened?" Iris asked as she walked down the corridor that led to the pipeline. Cisco, Caitlyn and HR were both standing in front of one of the metahuman proof cells that now currently had Barry Allen unconscious and handcuffed.

"Well as I understand it miss West-" HR began.

"Dude, you weren't even there. You were running around on the speed track after overloading on caffeine" Cisco reminded him.

"Yes but you two kindly filled me in" HR replied.

"But that doesn't mean you know everything" Cisco said.

"Guys!" Iris yelled, silencing them both. "What happened to Barry?" She asked.

"Well, after he turned down our offer of training and playing board games we left to go find mr. caffeine addict over here" Cisco told her while pointing to HR who coincidentally had just taken sip of his extra extra large coffee.

"And when we came back we found Barry trying to break into my medical supplies" Caitlyn said. "If it weren't for Cisco's quick thinking he'd probably be dead right now" she finished.

"So you guys just put him in here?" Iris asked as she looked back to Barry.

"Well after whipping up a pair of power blocking handcuffs" Cisco said pointing to the metal chains around Barry's wrists that had a faint blue glow to them. "So if our speedster friend here wakes up he won't be able to run his hand through his chest".

"You guys are working on a plan to fix him, right?" Iris asked.

"Well, right now we're trying to keep him alive" Cisco said.

"The meta hasn't been seen since his first appearance at the bank" Caitlyn told her.

"The Reaper!" Cisco yelled. "What is the point of me giving these criminals awesome nicknames if no one bothers to use them?"

"Maybe, he's not coming back?" Caitlyn offered, ignoring Cisco's frustration.

"No I don't think so, he's too powerful. He would just rob one bank and be done, I think he's planning something" Iris said.

"I-" Caitlyn started but in that same moment a groan could be heard coming from the locked cell.

"Barry?" Iris asked, walking towards the cell. Barry's eyes snapped open and as he looked around at where he was saw his hands cuffed he began yelling.

"Let me out of here, I need to die!" He screamed, banging his body against the thick glass.

"Stop! Barry, please. You're in there for your own good" Iris pleaded with him.

"No. No, no, no. This needs to end, I want it to end" Barry begged as he dragged himself to the floor of the cell.

"We're gonna save you, you just to stay strong" Iris said as Cisco pressed the button to close the door to the cell, blocking them from his view.

"We need to find a way to end this, the right way. Before it's too late" Iris said and together they all headed back to the cortex.

"Where is my son? I want to see Barry!" Joe said as he walked hurriedly into the cortex. Iris had called him only minutes before about Barry's current condition and he had dropped everything at work to come as fast as he could.

"Calm down, Joe" Caitlyn said. "He's in the pipeline right now, handcuffed".

"Also knocked out, again" HR added. "Don't worry he can't hurt himself now" he said although that wasn't completely true and they all knew it. This was the third time in the past few hours that Barry had to be knocked unconscious because he kept finding knew ways to try to harm himself and each idea was worst then the next. And while that was going on the Team was busily trying to find a way to save Barry, but so far no luck. That was until Cisco walked into the cortex.

"I am a genius!" He announced loudly as he strode in, daring to even put a smile on his face as he did.

"What are you so happy about?" Iris asked.

"That is a great question. But I may have found a way to save Barry and end his suffering and no, I don't mean killing him ourselves" he said and Joe gave him a look.

"And what are you suggesting?" Joe asked.

"We do nothing" Cisco said and a very dramatic pause followed.

"Cisco did you just advise us to do absolutely nothing about Barry's current situation?" Caitlyn asked.

"Yes. Well not nothing, nothing. We still stay on suicide watch like we're doing now but only until, the effects wear off" he replied.

"So you're saying this death metahuman's power is not-"

"Eternal? Nope, at least I don't think so" Cisco said.

"You don't think so? So this is a guess?" Iris asked.

"A very likely guess, yeah" Cisco said. "Think of it this way, a lot of times when you get sick you can take antibiotics yes, but then you basically have to suck it up and wait for the illness to pass. Most of the time you'll find the illness will even get worse before it's get better" he finished.

"Cisco that's genius" Caitlyn said nodding in approval.

"I'm sorry, I'm still not getting it" Joe said.

"The reason the meta's powers didn't affect Barry immediately was because of his fast metabolism and it ended up hitting him harder later. The meta's powers are like a virus that won't be able to survive in Barry's body so long because of the way his body heals so quickly. So like Cisco was trying to say, that if we could just keep Barry alive, his body will heal itself" Caitlyn finished.

"How long will it take?" Iris asked.

"It could be few hours, or a few days. We just need to keep Barry alive" Caitlyn said.

"That's gonna be a bit hard, look who's awake again" Cisco pointed to the computer monitor which had a live viewing of Barry inside his cell.

"I think we should take shifts, that way we always have someone near Barry. I'll be first" Iris said as she walked out of the cortex to the elevator.